Woven-wire fence.



No. 786,445. PATENTED APR. 4', 1905.

M. D. KILMER. WOVENWIRE FENCE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 11 1904.

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Patented April 4, 1905.

PATENT OFFICE.

MELVIN D. KILMER, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

WOVEN-WIRE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 786,445, dated April 4, 1905.

Application filed June 11, 1904. Serial NO- 212,118-

;'0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MELVIN D. KILMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Woven-Wire Fences, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a new and useful improvement in wire fences, more particularly to the style termed woven-wire fences; and it is the object of the invention to produce a fabric which will yield to pressure without being distorted and will return to its normal condition when the pressure is relieved.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 represents a portion of a fence-panel provided with the invention. Fig. 2 represents an enlarged face view of the connected ends of the jointed pieces forming the vertical strand. Fig. 3 represents a side View of the same. Fig. 4 shows a sectional view through the two meeting loops just above or below a horizontal strand. Figs. 5 and 6 represent perspective views of the meeting loops, one showing the horizontal strand crimped into position, the other figure showing this strand in dotted lines before being crimped.

In the drawings the letter A indicates the several usual single strands of metal employed in making the ordinary wire fence and secured to the post B. Fastened to these strands A are the vertical strands C, each composed of the several independent pieces D D D The top and bottom pieces D and D are secured to the topmost and lowest strand A in any convenient way, the invention relating to the way in which the pieces D, D, and D are secured to the middle strands A. The end d of each piece'D, D, and D is made into a loop 0) by turning the wire back uponitself and turning the extremity d over or partially around the main portion 03 of the piece. The loops d are all made alike.

In practice the meeting loops d d of two piecesD, D, or D are interlocked that is, one loop d is interlooped into the other loop cZ. These two interlocked loops d d are turned about a given strand A, so that this strand passes through both loops, as clearly indicated in Figs. 5 and 6. These loops are forced together around the strand A, crimping the strand at and within the two loops 6 6 into a bend a, which effectually prevents the loops from sliding along the strands A.

As indicated in Fig. 2, the ends of the pieces may be welded to the body of the pieces, making a stronger hold. Such a construction produces a fence in which the horizontal strands are firmly held apart, so as to form a fabric. At the same time the looseness of the parts permits the fabric to yield under pressure without being distorted or easily broken and which allows the parts to return to their normal condition as soon as the pressure is relieved. As the horizontal strands pass through both loops of the pieces of the vertical strands the strain at each joint is taken by both pieces in whatever direction the strain may come and through the horizontal strands is distributed to the other joints and to both pieces at these joints. Hence strain of pressure is divided among all the joints, and there is a common support among all the different pieces composing the fence.

I am made aware that there has been patented a wire-fence construction consistingof horizontal strands held by vertical strands, the latter consisting of several independent pieces connected to the horizontal strands, the latter passing through both of the loops where the horizontal strands and the loops of the vertical strands come together. In such construc tion, however, the ends of the pieces forming the vertical strands are not turned back upon the wire upon these vertical strands. but are secured some distance from the horizontal strands, forming an open loop which permits considerable play. In the present construc tion the end of each piece forming a vertical strand is turned back over the wire close to the horizontal strand, forming a small closed .eye which is just large enough to hold and grasp the wire of the meeting loop and the horizontal strand. This construction produces a tightly-clasped mesh with just enough flexibility to avoid rigidity, and yet not enough to produce looseness of parts with consequent tendency of breakage.

Having described my invention, what I claim is by the Wire turned back upon itself and the extremity turned close to the horizontal strands over or partially around the main portion of the piece and soldered thereto, the horizontal strands passing through the interlocking loops.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in presence of two Witnesses.

MELVIN D. KILMER. Witnesses:

JAMES FoRMAUcK, W. A. KILMER. 

